FF7 AP Farming Guide: What Is It, Why You Want It & The Best Places To Get It

[@laneface]

Check out my guide to get every weapon so you'll have the best weapons equipped when farming. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3a8pIGml5yki5Y

[@SWIFTO_SCYTHE]

21 years later and I'm still learning new things about final fantasy 7 thank you for this video

[@chriszhlybear4139]

Bruh I literally thought your picture was an eyelash on my phone screen.

[@israelzamora8905]

U dont even need to grind in ff7 u can beat it with tifa the whole way lol

[@iceman4208]

Really I learned from day one with the guide

[@nicholasnorman4179]

Ik but it's rare to have a final boss level up with your characters on Max it's interesting

[@paultanski-hampton928]

I know,right?? I didn't know you could morph the master tonberry into a ribbon

[@Pommernquelle]

I did not even know you could press the alarm button in Junon. I played so many hours of this game but still learn new things.

[@tree_alone]

it has complexity into absurdity, doesn't it?

[@NYCHeavyHitz212]

My favorite place to grind early.

[@NYCHeavyHitz212]

Well, was. The enemies in the woods after mythrill caves by Fort Condor are a bit faster to kill but do hella damage to you.

[@flyingfox417]

You always learn something new in this game once in a while

[@dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668]

You know what would be funny If Ziedrich had quadruple growth but still had no slots. Just to piss everyone off.

[@alejandro_rodriguez_99]

That sound like the beo sword in Fire Emblem 5. That sword gave at the user 2 skills, vantage and wrath, those 2 skills will always activate after a counterattack, but wrath and vantage can't be activated at the same time, because wrath doesn't work when you have vantage.

[@cameroncantu633]

I downloaded ff7 classic. The same one I cried to when I was 13 to 14. It's amazing how much joy you can get from playing an old game again.

[@ErionAireTam]

Nice video :) I had calculated the average AP per battle by location according to the quantity and the encounter rate of enemies. *Junon* , 1st corridor: 138 AP => new best spot once you get the buggy *Mideel Area, beach* : 200 AP => new best spot once you get the Tiny Bronco Mideel Area, grass: 180 AP => useless unless if you kill them way faster than the Sea Worm from the beach *Mideel Area, jungle* : 266 AP => new best spot once you get the Highwind Mideel Area, dirt: 161 AP => useless, except you might want Sources from Spiral Gelnika, northern room: 206 AP => **not** the best spot but more interesting stuff & challenge, once you get a submarine Gelnika, western corridor: 204 AP => easier than the northern room and paradoxically almost twice as much EXP Gelnika, flooded cargo bay: 172 AP => useless, except you might want stuff from Serpent *Northern Crater, ponds* : 922 AP (963 AP if your 3rd character has a mastered Pre-emptive) => The two screens with a pond have the same enemies with the same encounter rate, but the *screen on the left* has a higher battle frequency. It's the best spot. Northern Crater, Graveyard: 254 AP => not that bad compared to Mideel, interesting enemies Northern Crater, all other screens: 193 to 213 AP => useless *Scimitar vs Javelin* Yeah, Scimitar is advantageous to improve some specific Materias fast. On the other hand, Javelin is the equipment that gives the most AP in total, useful when you want to master all the Materias. To be precise: Scimitar => 2 slots × triple growth = you get 6 times the AP gain. Javelin => 5 slots × double growth = you get 10 times the AP gain. In other words, you get +66% AP replacing Scimitar by Javelin. Since I noticed that, I equip KotR on Apocalypse. xD In the same way, and in the long run, Wizard Bracelets are as efficient as Rune Armlets (8 × 1 vs 4 × 2).

[@laneface]

Nice!

[@tasselhoff1293]

I dont understand what you mean..how does the javelin give more ap? It has more slots so the ability to level more materia is there, i just dont understand how you think it gives 66% more ap..care to elaborate? From the movers u get 2400ap..2400x3= 7200ap, where as 2400x2 =4800...how is that 66% more then the scimitar?

[@churboify]

@@tasselhoff1293 its because the Javelin has more slots than the Scimitar. (AP × growth multiplier) x amount of slots Scimitar: (2400ap x 3)x2 = 14400 Javelin: (2400ap x 2)x5 = 24000 So for bulk mastering it's more efficient to use Javelin, but if you want specific materia mastered faster then use Scimitar.

[@retrohanska4441]

I'm glad someone pointed this out so I didn't have to. There's not too many materias that really need the 3x treatment besides KotR and especially if you're aiming for Master Materias, you want as many materias as possible at the same time

[@Amnesia1998]

@@tasselhoff1293 The total AP you gain over all is more. Not the AP for each individual Materia. If you have Materia you want to really focus on mastering, Scimitar. You have multiple Materia and aren't in as much of a rush., Javelin.

[@RossMirage]

You can farm Headhunters before getting the Highwind. There's an island you can get to with the Tiny Bronco that still counts as being in the Mideel area. I remember them being pretty common, but there may be other enemies in that area. Still, you can use them to farm AP on Disc 1.

[@TheAuron32]

those little shits give a good amount of EXP too if i recall.

[@arnehaugandersen3057]

I've spent 100's of hours on the Islands near Mideel after getting the tiny bronco. Four of those green, mean ripping Mf's gives 3000XP and 320AP Using the Odin summon to slice em up! You will get from level 30 to level 45 in just 6 hours

[@danielcobia7818]

Spent a lot of hours in 1999 farming near Mideel. Glad you included it, makes me feel like I wasn't a complete idiot at the time for farming there. Thanks for making this video, I'll have to keep some of these spots in mind in my next playthrough.

[@max_955]

At the time i had only the disc 1, and barely knew any english, i ended up up to lvl 70ish, my favourite spot was Nibleheim area against Valron. Lol.

[@H.O.D.L.]

I've rarely came across a series that is complex yet exciting at the same time. The mechanics in this game is ahead of its time, absolutely a lost art these days. Just started playing this for the first time in awhile, thanks for the information. 👍

[@freestylepunk]

Back when I played in 1997, I remember discovering the "3 bouncy orange balls" gave a ridiculous amount of AP. Stayed there and farmed for weeks to level all my materia. Good times.

[@bimjun2058]

They are called movers btw

[@akeyrtainment8507]

@@bimjun2058 first appeared in Final Fantasy 5, in Dimensional rift (final dungeon) looks like Movers' favorite place is final dungeon.

[@tmwk__]

I never knew anything about the Weapons/Armor Normal, Double & triple growth. Thanks!

[@David-kw5uj]

How were you playing till now? 😅

[@dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668]

If you're looking for huge AP, it's right here 3:15

[@TwilightWolf032]

Oh, you XD

[@alster724]

Now this explains why I am seeing FF7 gameplays having Cloud equipped with Apocalypse

[@Neopulse00]

Yeah definitely THAT room for AP. Many years ago I pretty much lived there for almost a month trying to get 4 of each Master Materia utilizing triple/double growth weapons & armor. Seeing those enemies in this video after so long brought back memories.

[@marcemarc6516]

Double growth on 3 slots is the same as single on 6. It does however let you focus on a certain materia more efficiently

[@etiennesauve3386]

exactly, I prefer cid's javelin(5 slots x2 growth) compare to the cimetar (2 slots x3 growth)

[@etiennesauve3386]

@Roy Sunshine well, when you only have 5 materia you want to grind ( apocalypse 3 + scimetar 2) then yeah but if you are grinding for master materia then no

[@Michael-hc2hp]

@Roy Sunshine But you already have Cloud for the triple AP growth. Both Cloud and Cid are the only ones who can get more AP with their weapons than x8 which is what 4 Slots x Double Growth gets you or 8 Slots x Normal Growth. Cloud's Apocalypse gives you 3 Slots x Triple Growth which is x9 and Cid's Javelin which is 5 Slots x Double Drowth which is x10. Anyway I always just have Cloud, Tifa, and Cid so my materia farming is perfect as I just have Cloud and Cid with their x9 and x10 AP weapons and Tifa with the Powersoul, Curse Ring, and Slash-All to decimate those Movers and Magic Pots. However if I want specific things mastered quickly like KotR, Mime, Counter, Magic Counter, W-Item/Magic/Summon, and Bahamut ZERO, then I give Cid the Scimitar, it all matters on the situation. Like I want to get at least 3 materia of Independent and Support and 4 materia for Magic, Command, and Summons because I want 3 to have in my inventory and I also want the Master Materia. If I'm trying to get just a bunch of useless materia leveled up such as like Exit, Sense, Steal, Manipulate, and Gravity, then I'll give Cid the Javelin.

[@notsogreatsword1607]

You can get to the Mideel Grass area before having the highwind. Just need the Tiny Bronco. Theres a peninsula with grass. Not as good as the jungle but better than the sea worms and junon!

[@minkdevil]

I love that little corridor in Junon, always spend hours levelling up my characters there :D

[@xshortguy]

To anyone wanting another good spot in disk 1: cosmo canyon area has a good AP per effort ratio, netting around 70 AP per battle.

[@lostnumbr]

Some might also consider the mythril mine about the best place to grind early game. Because most battles have 4-5 enemies, the ap, exp, gil and kills (for grinding limits) is pretty decent.

[@pretendamnesia]

The Corral Valley screen after the sleeping forest is actually better than the mideel area, it gives you 232 AP every fight. Its the best place on disc 1.

[@smoothiegoddess7036]

Midel forest gives you 240-320AP

[@reed3863]

@@smoothiegoddess7036 You can't get to mideel forest on disc 1.

[@smoothiegoddess7036]

@@reed3863 Ah, Im stupid, didnt see the disc 1. Disc 1 only gets u to beach midel

[@ErionAireTam]

Very nice catch, thanks.

[@5orgen51]

@@smoothiegoddess7036 You can't get to the mideel forest, but you can get to the grassland.

[@Mike-ix5sv]

I always master materia in the sunken galnika, I know there are more efficient areas, but on the galnika you can morph to farm sources, so I source farm and master materia at the same time

[@mahfreedumb4314]

Current situation👍🏽

[@5orgen51]

I found that to be a lot less efficient compared to the Mideel area.

[@andreweaton6363]

​@@5orgen51 That is only if you just care about max level and not maximum stats.

[@bongchoof]

getting to hear someone say poodler just tickles me. what a wonderful name.

[@marklion250]

I'm playing this game for the first time now and it's crazy how much is going on in it. The more nuance I find the more I like it. The mechanics are so good I can't believe they scrapped them completely in the next Final Fantasy. Thanks for the video!

[@xNwkz]

I didn't even know you could hit the alarm in junon holy moly

[@EloiSioMichalski]

Super useful!! It's really nice to see these tutorials and see how much you can learn even after such a long time playing this game!

[@fncrazy101]

The music was a nice touch!

[@reeepingk]

So, please help me here. I remember playing through FFVII as a kid, and I found a beach location fighting sea worms, but the SPECIAL thing about this area was that if you had a dualshock controller (or more importantly, a madcatz controller with a turbo button.) you could wrap a rubber band around the left stick to hold "down", and set turbo on the "O" button, and cloud would just run back and forth, back and forth on a beach. What this means is you could leave your PS1 running overnight and still be farming. But the IMPORTANT thing was that you needed to use some elemental materia to absorb the elemental attacks from the sea worm in order to heal yourself. So basically... you couldn't die. BUT, I can't find the exact place now. I don't remember getting 100% sea worm encounter rate (but it was very high), but I DO remember it was on a beach. Any help? I remember being able to do it relatively early in the game, either with the buggy or the bronco.I still have my old save... with at least 2 of every type of material maxed out, 99:59:59 save time, etc. But I've since moved on from that spot and I can't find it anymore. I also remember having to drive past the giant snake thing (not through the swamp, near it) to get to the place. (EDIT: Maybe I could have also equipped my characters with tetra elementals... I SEEM to remember doing that.)

[@Neopulse00]

Kyle Reeping that is pretty clever. Will remember this once I arrive to that point.

[@ErionAireTam]

Beaches of Mideel Area have only one enemy, the Sea Worm, which has mainly Earth elemental attacks, indeed. Nice strategy.

[@RTDinc]

well to start off with i like ap and source farming. so i equip yuffie with the conformer and my other 2 characters with double or triple ap equipment and go to the sunken ship. or go to the caves.

[@chuganoga1908]

The movers in that same zone with the pots give you 2400 and tie that with apocalypse triple growth you’re looking at 7200 per encounter given they are rare.

[@csmith3248]

I would use Tifa instead of yuffie Tifa power soul weapon has double growth weapon if u cast the death sentence or equip the curse ring you can deal major damage Also cid has the javalin which is a double growth weapon with 5 materia slots Could you make a video of learning enemy skills from the moment you gain the enemy material until end if game

[@laneface]

C Smith Tifa would be a good choice as well. I usually prefer Scimitar over Javelin because there's usually 4-5 materia I want mastered asap like KOTR. Enemy Skills is a good idea I'll look into that👍🏼

[@csmith3248]

Laneface Thanks Do u also play other ff games

[@RobotGuy405]

A good place I found for Disc 1 is the forest right outside the Temple of the Ancients. The bee swarm enemies there give around 80 - 100 AP depending on how many are in the battle. The battles themselves may take awhile, but they don't do much damage and the battles are basically automated because they inflict you with berserk, but if you're quick you may be able to cast a spell to wipe out everything before they can act.

[@Unforgiven1975]

Trying to remember when I played FF7... I can remember I had to boost up my toons by farming before i tried certain bosses. Arm grabber near sub, wall boss around temple of ancients, cosmo canyon cave area & dragon @ top of the cliff... Demanding pots for elixirs give huge ap which is boosted by double or triple ap - can remember getting all materia maxed out apart from KOTR but then putting it in Cids wep Javellin with MP Turbo max, with KOTR needing 150k ap. Emerald wep time for 50k ap x 3 for insta KOTR born. Oh - while ur doing those pots, occasionally orange bouncing balls things spawn instead. Morph them into protect rings - 1 each for insta manawall V Emerald. Usually I'd W-SUM KOTR+ MP turbo, then mime repeatedly til Emerald dies... For Ruby, kill off 2 toons apart from Cloud. KOTR 1star-MP Turbo, Master Summon 1-HP absorb & Master Summon 2-MP absorb & mime repeatedly till Ruby dies..have ribbon & elemental (absorbs)-fire for ruby flame. U will insta heal every time u KOTR after Ruby Ultimas...occasionally u will die if ultima & ruby ray combos but then have final attack-revive to bring u back...

[@willh1655]

weapons or armor with double growth and 4 or less slots, Do Not give more AP than equipment with all 8 slots. Its amazing how many people are wrong about this

[@KeysofIDproductions]

The W-Item glitch is super helpful for the Northern crater section as you can replenish your elixirs when running low so you'll never run out and grind to your heart's content. Also mastered All materia sells for 1.2 million gil each and are easy to master.

[@Iceman42069]

1.4 million

[@udalix]

I always just sell an all materia whenever I get some leveled up and can spare one or 2. They are useful, but in most cases I never utilize them. Get 1.4 million gil for a mastered one.

[@spamoholic2024]

Those pots or the three orange bouncing balls are indeed the trick to max out a lot of AP, there are some red dragons on an island which got huge amount of HP, but you can morph them into an elixir so you can do the elixir trick infinitly

[@Heymrk]

When the game came out on PC for Steam, I went after all the achievements. I spent HOURS in the swamp room in North Crater. Every time I mastered all of one color class, I ran back up and got a master set from the huge materia. I thought the game kept track of what you'd mastered, but no. I had to have a mastered copy of everything in my inventory. So after I'd created two sets of everything, I had to make a third set just to get them all in my inventory. I was so sick of the game by that point.

[@ceej5690]

I always just left my game to autogrind the sea worms. If your strong enough to kill them in one row of attacks they have a extreme low chance of damaging you. That's how I got my characters to level 99 and have a near mastered kotr without using double growth.

[@ErionAireTam]

Nice. And you can farm faster using Earth and Ice affinities. Absorbing Earth or Attacking with an Ice spell + HP Absorb make you to heal more HP than you lose. Absorbing or nullifying Earth protect you from their Darkness attack. Quadra Magic + [Freeze or Ice3] oneshot them early.

[@FormerRuling]

Morph Cactuers into Tetra Elemental (accessory that absorbs elements) and the worms will never kill you even if they get a lucky attack in very often (you are low lvl, etc) as their earth attack will heal you to full.

[@RiptornRory]

By the Mt Nibel mako reactor (same screen as the pipes you can take down and a save point) was the best place I could find to grind my group to 99, with tons of AP to the point I can't go through all the materia. Now to finish the game with true style.

[@sarahhoff3781]

The area where you land on wutai with the tiny bronco on the green spots is where I farm. You get quite a bit per fight and it's a good chance to level your limit breaks

[@Unpopular_Duality.]

This may have been said already but morph a master tonberry for the ribbon accessory is a must because you only get 2 of them through normal progression of the game. At least having 3 ribbons will make the ruby fight much easier. My take on a pro tip for OG FF7 fans.

[@killerb255]

It's much easier to morph the Ochu in the second Special Battle of the Battle Arena. It only has about 8000 or so HP, so two Beta castings + a Morph = Ribbon. Then bail out of the battle arena, rinse, and repeat as long as you have the GP.

[@Unpopular_Duality.]

@@killerb255 WOW!! I didn't know that. Thanks for the tip. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

[@Iceman42069]

​@@killerb255he's also in the ancient forest

[@Arachnocopium4U]

It's probably worth mentioning a warning with regards to the Magic Pots in case people didn't realise (especially newer players) but you should never attack the pots prior to giving them an elixir because, aside from doing no damage to them, it causes them to steal from you (I can't remember if this happens anyway if you hang around too long without doing anything). The worst thing about it is that there is a chance that they will steal especially valuable pieces of equipment such as someone's unequipped Ultimate Weapon, which can be taken right back if you're fast enough to kill it but if it gets away it will leave you in an unfortunate position of having to reload the game since it will be gone for good otherwise.

[@ClosestNearUtopia]

I used to farm in the sunken submarine. Could be tricky business but, well the effort. Or go hunt Cactuars.

[@thecaneater]

Regarding the Scimitar, if your goal is to quickly level 1 or 2 specific materia, then yeah, use it. But if you're doing long grinding on many materia, his 4-slot 2x growth weapon is better. 3x for 2 materia is x6 overall AP. But 2x for 4 materia is x8 overall AP.

[@wompastompa3692]

I would only recommend Cid's Triple growth if you want to very quickly level up a select few materia. If you want to level up a bunch of materia, any Double growth with 4 slots is better. This is because Cid's weapon rewards 2 slots at 3x growth, so 1 AP does the work of 6. For a 4 slot weapon at 2x growth, 1 AP does the work of 8, just spread out between more individual materia. Even an 8 slot Normal growth is better than Scimitar, so long as you want to level 7 or 8 materia on a single weapon. Cloud's Apocalypse is still recommended because for 3 slots at 3x growth, 1 AP does the work of 9. TL;DR Level a lot of materia: Use Apocalypse and either [two 4 slot Doubles], [one 8 slot Normal and a 4 slot Double], or [two 8 slot Normals]. Level a few materia: Use Apocalypse, Scimitar, and whatever else fits your needs.

[@Iceman42069]

Apocalypse is still better

[@luke12689]

Those pots are good... I remember farming in that room for a long time.

[@jong3461]

Well best weapons is either Cid's javelin with 5 double slots or clouds apocalypse with 3 triple slots. So you get more AP (total of times 10) from cids compared to clouds ( total of times 9)but over 5 materia. Vicente's buntline and yuffie's rising sun both have 2 joined double slots.

[@dbSteelyPhil]

I remember figuring all this out as a kid with no internet or guide. Not so dumb am I Mrs Henderson!!

[@Xhalo1183]

Early game those worms on the beach were my go to. I found they went down easy if you had Vincent with his weapon you get in Calm. It has two slot that are linked so you can do Elemental Ice, which they worms are weak to, and Deathblow. The weapon has a 255% hit rate so even with the Deathblow accuracy drop you still hit the majority, if not all, of the time and it does massive damage. I set it up a rapid fire controller and had it run along the beach after first getting the little bronco and I was able to have it running while I slept and I didn't get a TPK.

[@howtoappearincompletely9739]

What's a TPK, please?

[@TeamRocketHQR]

Beat the 3 dragon balls for 7200ap with triple growth Apocalypse sword near the end in the crater. It's the area where you have to go underwater for a few seconds after the party splits up. That room and the one right after that where you can run around in a full circle. Something I've remembered all these years for a while. I know there not dragon balls but always thought they looked a lot like them. When you attack them too it seems the camera gets all weird too. Your character moves to weird areas of the screen too. Almost like the monsters are bugged a bit. There of course a rare spawn and happen around 1/10 battles or so in those areas.

[@YellowSTS]

The Movers were my ‘go to’ for AP

[@MalpassGaming]

You can get to Mideel with the tiny bronco, you can't get into the town though. You can fight Headhunters and Spirals.

[@lostnumbr]

Also consider how many materia you want to level up. You might prefer equipping characters with normal growth weapons and armor with 8 slots which amount to an overall 8x growth. The only weapon that beats this is clouds apocalypse at 9x total growth.

[@kk_33]

There’s some great break downs that explain why Mideel is the single best place to farm AP, despite the common belief that the north cave room with Magic Pots, Movers and Tonberry is better. With the right setup, one can average like 5-10 seconds per Mideel battle, and every encounter in the area is going to produce a good amount of AP. So even though the amount of AP earned per battle may be higher in the North Cave, the varied number of encounters, along with the more time spent in battle with these encounters, you can actually farm more AP faster in Mideel thanks to the far greater rate of encounters

[@ErionAireTam]

The pound in the North Cave gives ~3.47 times the average AP per battle of Mideel jungle while you can still clear battles in 5-10 seconds with a good stuff.

[@StupidCommentaryChannel]

3:15 it says AP on the ground that's crazy lol

[@tardigrade9733]

I came back to this game on PS4 just recently and couldn’t remember why I always used Cloud, Yuffie, and Cid in my party near the end. Mystery solved

[@HermanBogaers]

5:38 Right the Northern cave is the best place to farm. It has no savingpoint there thats the downfall. BUT, somewhere at the start of the game you'll recieve a savepoint that you can put anywhere you like. Save it for the northern cavern. Only catch, there are but a few places down there where you can put it. Be carefull and pick wise.

[@killerb255]

At the start of the *Northern Cave* is where you get the Save Crystal, not the start of the whole game! You can put the Save Crystal just about anywhere in the Northern Cave, but there are places you want to avoid or else you'll cause a glitch that prevents you from leaving the area you put the crystal (meaning you'll never be able to leave the Northern Cave).

[@Jujubutter]

Sheesh I remember years ago spending hours upon hours, days and days just hanging out I. The northern cave farming those red balls and magic pot things to master every single materia and get as many master Magic’s/summons, etc as I could

[@denzelvilliers]

Best Party to Farm APs are: 🗡️ Cloud + Apocalypse ( 3 Slots + Triple = 9 Slots ) 🗡️ 🥊 Tifa + Motor Drive ( 6 Slots + Double = 12 Slots ) 🥊 ⛩️ Yuffie + Rising Sun ( 6 Slots + Double = 12 Slots ) ⛩️ Armors: Rune Armlet ( 4 Slots + Double = 8 Slots ) and Wizard Bracelets ( 8 Slots ) are basically the Same. Rune Armlet is better only if you have -4 Materias to Upgrade. If you have +5 Materias it makes no difference which one you choose 🤠

[@Lateralus1007]

Came for the content, stayed for the music, revisited for both 🗡️ 🎶

[@Chr1s_1986]

U can get Heathunters allready spawning when you first have the tiny Tiny Bronco. Swim to one of the nearby islands of Mideel and walk on the grass there (its one of the tiny Islands near Mideel) and you should encounter Heathunters there. The downside is that there also spawns an really annoying Bird that confuses one of your chars and if it took enough damage its flies up and you cant hit it with meelee weapons. This is ususally my 2nd place to farm AP my first is Junon too and then later in the game i go to Mideel island diractly to eleminate the anyoning Bird spawn.

[@Ressuu]

I wonder if The Movers were supposed to give 80 AP per mob instead of 800? That would make the more in line with other mobs. Kinda feels like a bug. EDIT/SOLVED: Movers are a rare encounter that have less than 5% encounter rate which makes the high AP reasonable.

[@Jikkuryuu]

Nah, they're like that in FF5 too. A special encounter specifically designed to cough up a boatload of AP for mastering things at the end of the game.

[@acerockollaa]

They also give a lot of gil.

[@ErionAireTam]

A Magic Pot gives 1000 AP for comparison.

[@Ressuu]

@@ErionAireTam a magic pot requires an elixir, which without the W-item bug would have been a much bigger grind.

[@NewEnglandOtaku]

I'm still playing this game, I had it on PC first so I had cheat engines.. which was fun and all but I didn't even involve myself in most of the game... then I played on the Playstation.. Until I broke my game disc when it got caught in the system itself.. the center got stuck on the spinner.. Then I have it on Steam, I lost it after getting to the end.. so I had to restart... this time I rushed past most of the side quests such as the parade stuff and others.. but I've been farming sources ever since.. I beat the game, got Emerald beat then beat Ruby... I never knew the real secret to beating Ruby.. Paralyze him.. then spam Knights of the Round a few times and keep paralyzing him and luckily I learned to kill off 2 party members before the fight so he didn't eject them from the battle.. it was pretty much the only way I could get a Gold Chocobo.. I tried multiple times and just kept getting a green chocobo.. I'm trying for maxing all stats for everyone as well as mastering all materia.. just need Sneak Attack and the other you win from the Chocobo Races.. and I think I'll have them all and get the final achievement of Materia Overlord.. also thanks to all of these videos, I'm trying out so many things... Trying to get Vincent maxed out, he has nothing but counter attack materia... then I'll master tons of Knights of the Round and give them to Barrett and face Sephiroth several times with a different party each time..

[@captain_dsz6049]

i would love a comphrensive series of explaining the best exploits such as yuffie warping witem guides to beat the weapons etc or best morph/steal enemies/locations/ when to steal when to morph when to let enemy drop

[@DarkepyonX]

Vid request : Best early game items and secrets to make new playthroughs and farming easier thx in advance. Ty for this video!!!!

[@gjtrue]

It's fun to farm Movers. Same for Final Fantasy V. 😋

[@Heymrk]

Not fun to farm the Pink Puffs in FF4, though.

[@crzbrq30]

I'm wondering, you said on the video around 3:28 that you can go to junon with buggy. My question is what route? I've been going through everywhere I can't find a way to reach junon with buggy.

[@laneface]

Once you get the buggy go to costa del sol. Drive into it with your buggy. Get on the ship and it'll take you back to the first continent with the buggy.

[@crzbrq30]

@@laneface ooohhhh didn't even know that I could do that. Lol! Makes me feel like an amateur even though I've beaten the game at %100 6x. Can't believe that 20+ yrs later you still learning. Thanks for your help!

[@crzbrq30]

@@laneface I've always waited for the prop plane for the grasshopper looking monster. I just got out of the first chocobo race to get out of prison and went to junon. And thanks to you I have all my materia that I've gotten at max and 1.2mil gil. Not bad for coming out of prison lol

[@Mill_O]

4:39 I think I can healthily disagree, there is a tiny part of the island either on or near Mideel, that you can reach in disc one using the Tiny Bronco, that has green grass on what looks like a peninsula. Headhunters can spawn there in groups of FIVE giving 250 AP per successful fight (50 each). They're usually pretty easy to deal with too, if you have the mp for a summon or decently damaging L2 elemental All cast. The only downside is the other opponents that you may encounter that can be absolute bastards to deal with. I'm sure one of them can cast L2 Confu which, if unprepared for, is a bit nightmarish.

[@tarantinoish]

Kind of surprised you didn’t teach the W-Item trick to help those hunting Magic Pots.

[@charlesdaugherty321]

Why not use Yuffies three times weapon?

[@David-kw5uj]

Once inside the Northern Cave is it possible to exit? I don't think I need mastered materia fot the final boss, I need them against the superbosses.

[@laneface]

Yes you can leave

[@NeroLordofChaos]

The Heavy tanks in Gongalga aren't a super terrible option to farm if you're also doing some early source farming. 45AP, 1300 gil, 340exp, and power sources if morphed. They only have 1600hp, so they die pretty quickly once you get your power high enough. Only real downside is that it's really only ever a half decent option and even then, only after the Temple of the ancients. If you max strength out for every character by the point in time that you can start farming it, you are looking at about 200 battles per character (approximately 1600 battles or 72,000ap).

[@BlindMansRevenge2002]

Wow, if this much Internet would’ve been around back in 1998 when I was playing this game, I would’ve had this game mastered. As it stands, I was able to beat the game, but they were so much unfinished business. I never did beat emerald or ruby weapon nor did I ever do. Anything like max out everybody’s levels as well as their stats.

[@pelliccetta]

I ll NEVER skip a ffvii video

[@5orgen51]

You can use sleep on the unknowns in the sunken ship

[@EmeraldGamer-mr5hf]

I actually found an earlier place to fight head hunters on disk 1 you just need the tiny bronko or bronco whichever is the correct spelling for it

[@desa35]

Watching the Video on 0.5x speed makes it sound like you're some drunk guy trying to explain grinding in FFVII

[@RathrAhsum]

You can farm Headhunters in the grass area near the worm with the Tiny Bronco

[@kratchet559]

This is all quite far into the game, The coral area between the sleeping forest and the city of the ancients is a pretty good area with double growth + trine good for unlocking level 3 limits too.

[@DjDoomtrain]

you can do the junon thing allready first time u get there if i recall right

[@ErionAireTam]

The 1st time, the alarm can't be triggered. They probably wanted to enable it for when you come back for the Huge Materia (and this would be coherent with the level of the Junon Reactor enemies), but enabled it as soon as you finish the 1st Junon part. The sailor let you pass only once you have the buggy though.

[@cej2971]

i prefer grinding with vincent instead of yuffie.. with equipped slash all materia, you're farming kills and ap at the same time ;)

[@RGolak]

this is how I was able to get the all 99999999 gil trophie on FFVII PS5, I have found that the All materia yealds the highest gil amount when you sell them mastered

[@spazzwazzle]

Loving the music.Where can I find it?

[@felipearaya9108]

Defeat movers with apocalypse.....the most fastest idea to improve materia

[@captain_dsz6049]

its actually better to use cids 5 slot double growth then his two slot triple growth if you wanna farm more and faster imho

[@GuilloRamiro]

Awesome video!

[@exeledusprince9165]

I'm not sure if you are still taking video suggestions, but it's been nearpy 20 years since I've last played things game, and I'd like to know the best ways to learn the various limit breaks throughout the game.

[@laneface]

I'll look into that. I got an idea for a video I'm going to start working on soon but after that I'll see what I can whip up.

[@stefanlechner1501]

Best way in my opinion is the bridge to Corel/Mt.Corel Use HYPER on your Characters and fight BOMBER on the Corel bridge. When it explodes, it does big damage to your group and will rise your LIMITbar very fast. For the second technique of the LIMIT Break level you have to use the first technique about 8 times. Then you need the enemys Search Crown which appears in bigger groups on Mt. Corel. Use Magic (Matra) to kill all enemies at once, untill you reach the next level of LIMIT break. To get there, you have to kill between 40 and 200 enemies with that character. It took me about 2 hours to reach the second technique of the 3rd LIMIT break level from each character. Except Cait Sith (only 2 LIMIT levels) and Vincent (no second technique).

[@diggadat4827]

I tend to grind limit breaks early. I grind all the way thru Cloud and Aeris' LBs (except the level 4's of course) right near Aeris' house, on the screen with the robot arm on the way to Wall Market. Hell House and the little purple bug enemies. In particular, the bugs can come in a group of 4 which is awesome for getting the kill count for each LB that needs it. Hell House deals high damage in its broken form and charges LBs quickly. Use Aeris' house for free heals/MP restore. Then I do the same thing with Barret and Tifa after the plate falls. Then I grind out everyone else's LBs pretty much as soon as I get that character. Red XIII and Yuffie in the forest near Junon where you can find Yuffie. Vincent and Cid in Mt. Nibel. Cait Sith just wherever since he just needs the 40 kills and I never really use him beyond just unlocking his second LB.

[@diggadat4827]

If you're talking mechanic-wise though, it's just the same two-step system for almost everyone. Use the first limit break in each set (1-1, 2-1, 3-1) a set number of times, which will get you the second in each set (1-2, 2-2, 3-2). Once the second LB in a set is unlocked, kill a set number of enemies to advance to the next tier. Only exceptions are Vincent and Cait Sith, who both just need kills and they don't require you to use a LB a certain number of times.

[@kg_yoink1272]

Have been farming down in the northern crater but I can never find my way back out can you help??

[@laneface]

Go to the end of this video, like 1:58:00 in and it shows me leaving the crater kzbin.info/www/bejne/ooK0p6OQYqlgkJo

[@kg_yoink1272]

@@laneface oh thanks so much

[@MasterJammer]

What does AP stand for???

[@vine01]

probably Ability points

[@nicholasnorman4179]

The headhunter you can actually find them in this one in the green side of that island trust me ap for four of them 320

[@mr.h5604]

Magic pot are pain in NA version, in JP they are free to kill without any catch (elixir)

[@jonathanplooij3666]

thanks for the video

[@josmith9662]

Not stealing at the same time?

[@seansmith3274]

Do the movers give you 2400 AP for each or all 3

[@adammclaughlin845]

For all 3. That's 800 each.

[@ericwebster7845]

Thanks. Very helpful.

[@scottjohnson7877]

Not only can one Morph Master Tonberry enemies into Ribbons but one can also steal Elixirs from them which are needed for the Magic Pots.

[@Arachnocopium4U]

True but the W-item glitch is a far quicker method for re-stocking your elixirs.

[@Amershaf]

Mideel area. Equip all the double arm.

[@THAT_SUG]

Man I love your videos

[@kclink1579]

5:27 Where do you get Typhon?

[@vincentecrow09]

Ancient Forest. It’s in the mountains in the Cosmo Area, where you either need the green chocobo for earliest access (gold chocobo also works, of course) or by taking down Ultima Weapon to make it accessible by foot. You can also find Cloud’s Apocalypse there as well as other cool stuff like the Slash-All materia, Minerva Band, the Spring Gun Clip for Red XIII, and the Supershot ST for Vincent.

[@nelsonward5829]

As soon as you get the Tiny bronco you can find headhunters. Don’t waste time at Junon

[@jonbourgoin182]

I like your delivery better than 4-8 productions, I only wish you posted more. I get why you don't though